As today is the first of May, communities across the world might be getting on their sunny day best and heading to dance around a maypole – a tradition which is around 600 years old.

Looking back at the Maypole, she sighs. “I should’ve stayed away from this fertility dance. Something tell me she knows something I don’t.” Originally Published: May 11, 1998 at 4:00 AM EDT ...

The maypole dance would belong to Delaware alone. Contact reporter Scott Goss at (302) 324-2281, [email protected] or on Twitter @ScottGossDel. DANCING IN THE NEWS ...

In Picture 5, we see maypole dancing at Tackley, near Bicester, on May Day in 1966. We know little about Picture 6 - it is possibly a picture of the May Queen and her procession at Iffley in Oxford.